he hated Serbia and was already determined
on her destruction.

Largely because of the determined stand taken by Austria in the
London conference, Albania was made an independent principality,
Serbia was denied her longed-for outlet on the Adriatic, Greece was
deprived of Epirus, and Montenegro had to give up Scutari, the
taking of which cost her so much blood.

Now it had also happened that the operations of the various armies
of the Balkan allies had been in territories different from what had
at first been anticipated. The Turks had put up their main fight
down in Thrace, leaving the greater area of Macedonia comparatively
undefended. Thus the Bulgarians, while doing the heaviest fighting,
had been concentrated in a small territory, hammering away at the
main forces of the Turks, while the Serbian and Greek armies had
been able to overrun much larger territories with comparative ease.
Thus Bulgaria, though she had done most of the fighting and had lost
the heaviest, occupied only a broad pathway from her own southern
frontier, down through Thrace to Constantinople, while Serbia
occupied most of Macedonia, and Greece was in possession of
Saloniki.

Greece and Serbia, and especially Serbia, having been cheated of
most of the territory they had counted on annexing by the Treaty of
London, now demanded a revision of the treaties by which they had
gone into the war. Moreover, the Treaty of London confirmed them in
the possession of the territory they now occupied.

The bitterest feelings were at once rekindled. Both sides had
grievances. Serbia maintained that at the conference in London
Bulgaria had failed to back up her claim for Albania. Therefore she
was entitled to compensation in Macedonia. Bulgaria asserted that
Macedonia was inhabited by Bulgars who did not wish to become
Serbian subjects.

[Illustration: Balkans After the Second Balkan War.]

At this juncture Austria again appeared on the scene and whispered
in Bulgaria's ear that she should take what she wanted by force of
arms; was not her army equal to the armies of Greece and Serbia
combined? Meanwhile she, Austria, would see that there was no
intervention from the outside. This was one motive that drove
Bulgaria into the Second Balkan War.

For the past generation Macedonian boys had been coming up into
Bulgaria. Many had gone back to Macedonia, but the majority had
remained and settled in Bulgaria. Hundreds of them had entered the
army and many o